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...present radio waves are sent over long distances by bouncing them off ionized layers of gas in the earth's atmosphere. Unfortunately, signals from the ionosphere can be jammed, and events such as a large solar flare can cause a radio fadeout by impairing the ionosphere's ability to transmit signals. From a military standpoint, a radio fadeout or jamming could be disastrous in certain situations. Therefore the Air Force supported Morrow's plan, to create a fully reliable global communication system...
...protest over the introduction of automatic plate-casting machinery, and was soon punctuated by picket-line brawls and the dynamiting of newspaper delivery vans. Every other strike paper that has been started in the U.S. in the last 30 years-nearly a score in all-has done a quick fadeout as soon as the regulars returned to the newsstands. In Portland the regulars never really left; for six months they published a joint, typo-marred paper; then they hired enough nonunion help to resume separate operations...
...room drama since The Front Page. "I went out," says the reporter hero (Nick Adams), "and I dug for it, and the deeper I dug the dirtier it got." Even the cutting is tabloid cheap. A man puts a gun at another's temple and prepares to fire. Fadeout...
...evil spirits refused to do a fadeout. The last straw for Nkrumah was the bombing fortnight ago of a torchlight parade that was celebrating an event close to his heart-his own 53rd birthday. Osagyefo was nowhere near the blasts, but they jolted him into declaring a state of emergency "to rid Accra, and indeed Ghana, of such acts of savagery." Troops with tommy guns and light tanks guarded the approaches to Flagstaff House where Nkrumah, afraid to appear in public, has made himself a virtual prisoner...
Lady Brando. The potentates at Universal were articulately querulous. Said one: "What audience would ever believe that the hero would want to get her at the fadeout?" The turning point of her career came in 1934 when she peroxided her hair and stole the show as Mildred, the mean little waitress in Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage. Says Davis: "She was the first leading-lady villainess ever played on a screen for real. I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation...